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OMFG. MEGAMAN'S BACK! FOR TWO WEEKS! W00T!I liked the episode,"The Mysteriously Masked Navi" It wasvery funny!I found out how to record it!YAY! I managed to find out in 10 minutes...O.O

Surprises

Chapter Twenty: Almost There

A child is walking down the sidewalk with their mother. He is holding a small sack of marbles.

"Mommy, mommy! I won the game! I'm as good as sister now!" he cried, holding up the small trophy. The mother smiled kindly and proudly. Proud of his son. She bent down, and gave his son a happy hug.

Suddenly, a swift, small brown dog whooshed by, and hit the bag of marbles the child was holding. The bag of marbles scattered across the floor, having at least ten fall into a small hole that fell upon the border of the large building nearby.

Lan sighed. "This is never going to work! We'll be here all day! And before you know it, sci-lab will go BOOM!" Lan said, doing the same hand gesture Hazeman did. (Releasing a fist like a flower)

"Be quiet. Stop complaining and think! You've been able to go through previous obstacles and you can't go through this one? What are you Lan Hikari?" Chaud said giving a pitiful look at Lan.

Lan sighed. "Well, you have a point…Here, I think I just thought of something. Try-" He was cut off when ten marbles fell out and hit him square on the head in an equal amount of time. When Lan made a dizzy face with his tongue sticking out, about two seconds later the largest marble comes and PLUNKS poor Lan in the head, causing him to fall on the floor.

As the marbles fell on Lan's head Chaud was watching them go PLOP PLUNK PLOP nodding and bobbing his head as they fell one by one on his ally's nutcase-er…head.

"Ow…" Lan said, still in a tizzy.

'Where'd those marbles come from?' Chaud thought, looking up.

Suddenly, he saw something sparkle. His eyes widened.

"Lan…Lan look…" Chaud shook Lan's shoulder and urged him to look up.

"Ow…what…" Lan rubbed his head and looked up. He saw something sparkle.

"Hey…what is that?" Lan asked, regaining control.

"I don't know…" Chaud said in reply. He looked at Lan and saw a dent in his forehead. There were four dots and one large circle around them.

"Hey…" Chaud pointed. "How'd you get that?"

"Huh?" Lan tried to look up at his forehead. He felt around his forehead. The pointed from his forehead to the floor where he was face down before. He felt around for something that could of made the mark.

"Here." Lan pointed at a small circlet in the floor. It was similar to Lan's bruise, but it stood out more. There were three dents that were inside the large circlet, each on each corner.

"What do you think is up there Chaud?" Lan asked pointing upwards.

"What sparkles?" Chaud asked. Lan shrugged. "A star?" Chaud sweatdropped and fell on the floor.

"A mirror you dope." Chaud hit him. Lan made a face at the audience like he was a dead fish or something.

"So…what are you saying? That the mirrors are supposed to direct the lasers to the switches…and the equipment around it was just an interference?" Lan asked.

"Yeah. It was just to take our mind off the actual truth. Kinda like a hitch."

"A h-hitch?" Lan cocked his head sideways. Chaud held his forehead.

"Nevermind…Just, move the equipment so they won't be in the way." Chaud pointed at his PET that was in Lan's hand.

"Okay…I get it…" Lan moved around with Chaud's PET. Pretty soon all the equipment around them had been moved to the corner.

"Okay I got it. Now all we have to do is move around the mirrors so that the laser will be directed up to the mirror, and then down to these orb thingys…" Lan pointed as he spoke. Chaud sweatdropped.

"Yeah…whatever you just said Lan." View: Chaud and Lan go chibi with these cute little sounds playing every time the go from corner to corner changing the and readjusting the mirrors. Finally, they were done.

The lasers had started charging, and finally let out a stream of red light, bouncing from one mirror to another, then finally up the ceiling, then down to the orbs. Lan and Chaud watched as the orbs activated. The room around them started the disappear, and they were back in a room, similar to the one where Hazeman was before, but without Hazeman. Faint materializing noises were the only sounds you heard if you weren't deaf and was listening very closely.

"You hear that?" Lan asked. Chaud nodded. "Do you think we found it?"

"I'm not sure. Let's look around." Chaud replied. They went around, scanning the walls, until…

Lan was holding his hand against the wall and had pressed something.

"Huh?"

"Did you activate another switch?" Chaud walked over. A long pause was all that happened.

"Now I'm convinced that I don't really know…" Lan said in reply, breaking the silence. He stared back at the switch.

"We're never going to get this done…" He sighed, and hung his head in exhaustion. "I want curry."

"Will you-" Chaud was about to interrupt until suddenly, right where Lan had his hand against the wall, the switch became a small panel and on the panel…

Was a bowl of curry?

"CURRY!" before Chaud could tell Lan, 'Stop Lan that may be a trap!' or 'Lan that may be poisonous!' or something similar, Lan had gobbled it all up. Instead, he crossed his arms and glared.

"You know, I really wish that I could put some duck tape over your mouth Lan." And right when he finished his sentence, a roll of duck tape stuck Lan's mouth shut. Chaud winced.

"I wish that piece of duck tape was off of you." Chaud said. Lan just stood their awed. The piece of duck tape came off, just as he said.

"This is a-" Chaud was cut off.

"I WISH I HAD A HOT DOG, FRIES, A BOWL OF CURRY, AND SOME SODA!" Lan called. Then, just like how it was with the bowl of curry, came the hot dog, fries, and then rest of what Lan had 'ordered'

"Wow! Why can't my room be like that?" Lan said starting to eat up all the food. Chaud sweatdropped.

When Lan finished, he grinned at Chaud. "Okay. I was hungry. I'm pretty sure you know what this room is and does. I had my lunch." He grinned wider.

"Now can we-"

"Show us to the room with the cloning device!" Lan said out loud. The dark room started to fall in one place as it seemed, all to this one section of the room in the wall. It made a small door, then formed a large glass window, and a door. The materializing noises had gotten louder by now.

Lan and Chaud exchanged looks then nodded. (A/N: Here we go again.) They started over to the window and looked inside. (The window was a window of glass that had a large area so a lot of people could see at the same time. Kinda like the ones you see at sci-lab.)

The two of them gasped. What they saw as it seemed, two large black pillars that curved at the end, having every time they meet at the same time, which is every time, at then small shadow navi in the center, another navi like that one would appear. The same navis that Hazeman was talking about.

"So this is where all the navis are made!" Lan exclaimed. "We've got to destroy that thing! Let's go!" Lan was about to dash in until Chaud held him back.

"Wait! The navis are guarding this place! We can't get in without being seen! You'll just be committing suicide!" Chaud told him.

"Then how are we going to get inside?" Lan asked.

"Hm…" Chaud looked around. "Do you think we can get in without being seen?" he asked.

"Well, yeah but how are we going to be 'Without being seen'?" Lan asked.

Chaud smiled and turned around. "Make us invisible." he said. Lan just looked at him confused, but then he saw a large light coming from the other side of the room. It was coming their way, as if it were a scanner. The scanner was approaching them, and Lan started to panic.

"W-What is that?" Lan pointed, hiding behind Chaud. The scanner had already gone over them by now. Lan had his eyes closed in fear of what pain would occur. After a while, of shielding himself, he opened his eyes. He looked at his hands.

"I'm alive!" He exclaimed.

"We know that. Now come on. We have to get rid of that navi in the middle. And make sure it doesn't come back either." Chaud told him.

"Okay. We'll pour some water on it." He ordered for water, and got a bucket of water. Then Lan looked at his hands. "I still can't believe this." Lan followed Chaud inside.

They silently crept inside, and went behind the cloning device. Lan and Chaud both had a bucket of water, and nodded. They opened the small case that held the case shut, and dumped all the water inside. The machine emitted sparks immediately, and slowly started to give off larger sparks.

"It's gonna errupt!" With that the two of them dashed out the door.

The machine shook frantically, and pretty much, blew up. Taking away everything around it. All the navis that had been an effect of cloning, disappeared and were gone.

Lan and Chaud were watching this as it happened.

"Fools! What do you think you're doing?" They heard a voice behind them. They turned.

"Hazeman!"

"Do you think just because you discovered the cloning machine and destroyed, that your precious sci-lab wouldn't be destroyed? Empress and Dark Knight are over there right now, taking care of your pitiful navis. Once their done, I'll release the navis. They also have a load with them as well. Just because you did this, doesn't mean you have destroyed my plans! You stu…pid…" Lan and Chaud were gone.

"CURSES! Does no one care about a poor lonely soul such as I!"

"WE have to stop Empress and Dark Knight or they'll release the navis and sci-lab will be gone!" Chaud said as he ran back to sci-lab.

"But we can't hurt Roll or Slayer! They're our friends!" Lan replied.

"We'll have to find another solution. But if we can't find one, we'll just have get rid of them. We have no choice. This is the sacrifice Lan."

"I love you…" Megaman whispered. That whisper was faint, but Empress could here it.

"What? What did you just say?" Empress's voice softened.

"I love you…Roll…" Megaman whispered again.

"No…No…NO!" Empress grabbed her head and flung back. "NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! NO! STOP IT!" She screamed.

Empress screamed and screeched a horrible, dreaded shriek that sent shivers up Megaman's spine.

Megaman struggled to stand up, holding the wall for support.

"CURSE YOU MEGAMAN! M-Megaman…help…NO! THIS ISN'T RIGHT! GO AWAY! YOU'RE GONE! ROLL IS GONE! M-Megaman! Mega-BE GONE!" Empress struggled, jumping from Empress, to Roll, to Empress, then again. Empress was nearing Megaman now, her sword raised, with one hand over her eye.

"YOU WILL BE DELETED MEGAMAN! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I EVER DO!" She lifted her sword. Megaman waited for the sword to strike him, and let pain fall upon him. He made a fist against the wall. "I'm sorry Lan…everyone…"

But, the only thing he found that hand fell upon him, was Empress. Megaman, having to not know what to do for the first time, wrapped his arms around Empress.

"Let go of me you fool!" But the only thing that was let go was Empress's sword. Roll was returning.

"M-Megaman…I-I…l-love…y-you…h-help…" Megaman could just barely tell that it was Roll. He was much to weak. He would have been deleted by now, but miraculously survived.

"I'll return for you Megaman…you will be deleted before my feet!" Empress it was this time, she hissed. Roll had returned to her normal state.

"Megaman…?" Roll whispered. "Megaman?"

"R-Roll? Is…is that you?" Megaman answered meekly.

"Megaman!" Roll had let go of Megaman for a moment, but then wrapped her arms around him again.

"Megaman! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Roll cried. "I hurt you!"

"I-It wasn't your fault…you were…corrupted…" Megaman said weakly.

"You're hurt…" Roll cried softly. She hugged him close. "I'm sorry Megaman…I love you…I promise…" Megaman's eyes widened slightly.

"R-Roll…I-I love you…t-too…" Megaman stuttered. Not because he was shy, because he was weak.

"Megaman!" Roll kissed Megaman on the cheek. Megaman blushed.

Protoman struggled to stand up. Dark Knight scowled and helped him up, much to her dismay.

"You wish?" She held her epée to his neck. Protoman just stared at her. Then, an dreadful idea came to mind. 'I have no choice…it's my only hope…and my last one…'

Protoman gathered up all his strength, and pushed away Dark Knight's sword. Though she was still holding it, it went back to her side, and what Protoman did next, shocked not only us and you, but him himself.

Protoman forced Dark Knight into a embrace, and kissed her. Her lips were cold and warm in an awkward way. So cold, it was hot. Protoman was trembling, but was calm enough to feel that Dark Knight was trembling as well. She started to grow weak.

'Fool…What does he think he's doing? He's just asking for a death wish isn't he? Hmpf…' Dark Knight was furious, she tried to pull away, but Protoman had a good grip on her. Finally, she gathered her remaining strength, and pierced Protoman's shoulder, to the other side.

Protoman jerked, but stood his ground. 'It's…my…last hope…'

'FOOL!' A voice roared in her mind. Protoman held her tight, but she pulled her sword out, and was about to strike again until…

'What? What's happening? I'm loosing control! What's happening to me! NOOOO...!' Protoman still held her hard, but gentle.

The color started to fade away in Dark Knight's uniform and cape. (Dark Knight's cape covered her whole body.) and her normal color was returning. (Still in Protoman's arms)

Protoman, deleted. Or…almost deleted. A gloved hand was placed on his wound another on his other wound, and started to glow. The large amount of data he had lost, started to return at a quick pace. He was saved.

Protoman winced.

"What…?" Protoman wondered when he recovered the feeling in his body. No longer numb, he felt weight on his shoulder. He looked down to see Slayer, no longer corrupted with a piece of the dark chip and virus. He let out a small, slight smile.

The wall disappeared, and Megaman saw Protoman. The only difference was that, Roll still had enough energy to stand, Slayer did not. Not because she healed Protoman just in the nick of time, it was because, Roll has past experience from the virus chip. Even equipped with the dark chip, she still managed. Slayer, did not. She doesn't have past experience. She has not energy left. (A/N: Gee…that was cheesy.)

A slightly tired out Megaman did a thumbs up at Protoman, who slightly and did a thumbs up in return.

Ohohen: Oh my I should of ended it there. I mean, I would of gotten it done on Dec. 4th or 5th, but I had writer's block. So, just for now, use this chapter. This chapter really wasn't a big cliffy, but you action lovers are probably still wondering about Hazeman. Don't worry, I only had writer's block because of that. I didn't want to let you down you know? Even though you aren't reviewing and all…which isn't very fair…and you're starting to make me pissed…anyway.

I'm trying to think of something for the action…something BIG. Just enough to satisfy you ungrateful action lovers who are reading this story. You gotta understand I'm doing my best. And how I know you're there? Dude…I probably got more the 5000 hits on this story…which to me is amazingly a lot. Usually I get less then a 1000. When they reset the status counters, I got more then 700 hits in one day. Oh I know you're there alright you ungrateful fools.

I hope you liked this chapter. Let's just say, I tried and I think I failed. I don't think anymore people will be reading this story after this chapter. I don't think a lot of people like the pairing. So, yeah…I don't care if you don't read it. This story's gonna be dead after I finish it anyways. With no more reviews or hits…or alerts of course.

I liked the marble thing XD plop plop plop! ) hope you guys don't mind me updating so late. Hopefully this can make it up for you romance freaks out there hopefully that is.

Hey, I said Protoman's gonna have a big part near the end! And it's in chapter 20! Now with that over with, the only thing to worry about is the action part…oh, and I'm changing the genres, it's not action/adventure/romance anymore. It's not gonna be like before after a month of ending this story. I think the sequel is going to have more action then the this story. Hope you people don't mind. But don't worry, there's gonna be something for your romance lovers…once you find out Chaud and Komi's TRUE relationship! And I must say you people have already guessed it! You guys pay real close attention don't you? ) till next time! And I'm not going to update until a long time. Not until I get over my writer's block that is. My friend, she got over it in exactly 40 minutes.

But she's writing a blood/gore/adventure story. And don't bother looking it on fan fiction. It's not there. She wrote nine chapters on paper and pen. Or with pen that is. She's on the ninth chapter, on wide ruled paper. Each chapter is like three pages. I must say, they write too little. It takes about more then five of her chapters to make up one chapter of this story. I hope you get the point.

I don't actually read the story, since I don't really want to know…and it's not my type…(I like fan fiction and humor fiction and nonfiction more then the story she's making) not that's its bad or anything of course. My other friends seem to be very in to it. Like…DESPERATE for another chapter. Sometimes they talk about the story and how the characters are acting…

You know there are sometimes I really wish I was Helen Keller. Deaf. Blind. (Was she mute? Hm…more research for me.) Not that I think the blood and gore is nasty or anything…my friend (the one who's writing the story) seems to be the only one besides me who doesn't get the shivers from nasty things.

People at lunch do some pretty nasty things too. Like putting their food with other foods…weird.

I don't read the story as you know, but once, I picked up a paper to a chapter, and read a sentence. (A sentence is as far as I've gone so far) The sentence had my friend, "Chimeira" (Her name is that in the story) It's supposed to be "Chimera" you know, when two different tissues are a result of mutation. Or two animals or species put together to make a whole, other species. That kind of chimera. (See? It PAYS to watch Fullmetal Alchemist!) When I told her it was "Chimera" not "Chimeira" she was pretty pissed. XD I knew it was Chimera since they were pronouncing it that way. Haha…how foolish of them…oh well. Everyone makes mistakes. XD I wish she'd change my name to Watkyn…yeah…I'll ask her that tomorrow! ) brilliant.

Okay, I'm done with my page and a half speech/piece of my life/piece of author's/editor's life. Now…

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please?

One more thing (So. Many. Things.) Just because I like romance FANFICTION. Doesn't mean I have my eye on anyone. Plus…crushes are stupid. P that's why I never had one. But I like anime pairings though! Like Netto/Meiru and Megaman/Roll and stuff. But stories like, "Gone with the Wind" Not my type. Too…mushy…fluffy…gushy…shiver

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And authors please update your story if I reviewed for it ) yes I'm that desperate!